Befo De War: Echoes in Negro Dialect (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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De niggers use ter be stan'in' roun' Jes' d' same ez leaves when dey fus' fall down De stable-stalls up heah at home Looked like teef in a fine-toof comb De cattle was p'digious - mus' tell de fac' An' de hogs mecked de hill-sides look like black An' de flocks ob sheep was so gre't an' white Dey 'peared like clouds on a moonshine night. An' when my ole Mistis use' ter walk jcs' ter her kerridge (dat was fur Ez ever she walked)-i tell you, sir, fou could almos' heah her silk dress talk Hit use' ter soun' like de mornin' breeze, When it wakes an' rustles de Gre't House trees. An' de Marster's face l - de Marster's face, Whenever de Marster got right pleased Well, I 'clar' ter Gord, 'twould shine wid grace De same ez his countenance had been greased.
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De niggers use ter be stan'in' roun' Jes' d' same ez leaves when dey fus' fall down De stable-stalls up heah at home Looked like teef in a fine-toof comb De cattle was p'digious - mus' tell de fac' An' de hogs mecked de hill-sides look like black An' de flocks ob sheep was so gre't an' white Dey 'peared like clouds on a moonshine night. An' when my ole Mistis use' ter walk jcs' ter her kerridge (dat was fur Ez ever she walked)-i tell you, sir, fou could almos' heah her silk dress talk Hit use' ter soun' like de mornin' breeze, When it wakes an' rustles de Gre't House trees. An' de Marster's face l - de Marster's face, Whenever de Marster got right pleased Well, I 'clar' ter Gord, 'twould shine wid grace De same ez his countenance had been greased.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Thomas Nelson Page was an American writer and lawyer, as well as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Despite his family s wealthy lineageboth the Nelson and Page families were First Families of VirginiaPage was raised largely in poverty. Based on his own experiences living on a plantation in the Antebellum South, Page s writing helped popularize the plantation-tradition genre, which depicted an idealized version of slavery and presented emancipation as a sign of moral decline in society. Page s best-known works include the short story collections The Burial of the Guns and In Ole Virginia, the latter of which contains the influential story Marse Chan. Thomas Nelson Page died in 1922.
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- Publication date2018
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